Desktop icons have become tiny

[sudieken]

I'm having a really strange issue with my desktop icons. They've become super tiny, and if the icons normally have a transparent background they get a white box behind them. Oddly enough a few of the shortcuts are completely normal.

I've tried resizing them with the context menu as well as with Ctrl + Mouse Wheel. They do not resize no matter what I do. I've also tried manually recreating all of the shortcuts with no success.

 

[Ranger4]

Hi sudieken welcome to Windows Seven Forums.

Those desktop icons look fairly normal to me for small icons. Have you tried right clicking your mouse on the desktop & selecting View. This will give you the option of Large, Medium & Small Icons.

 

[richc46]

Ranger has given you good advice. The method I prefer which gives the precise size that you want is to hold down cntrl button and then use the mouse wheel to adjust size.

 

[indianacarnie]

Welcome to the forums sudieken!

Easiest things first, have you tried a System Restore to a point before your icons changed size?

We have many excellent tutorials here at the forums, heres one you could try, just click on the link : http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/268478-icon-cache-size-change-windows.html

 

[sudieken]

Like I said, I can't resize them with either method. The affected icons don't get bigger or smaller no matter what I do. I've attached a picture of what happens when I try.

Also, I just tried building the icon cache using these directions.

It doesn't seem to have done anything.

Welcome to the forums sudieken!

Easiest things first, have you tried a System Restore to a point before your icons changed size?

We have many excellent tutorials here at the forums, heres one you could try, just click on the link : http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/268478-icon-cache-size-change-windows.html

I'll try a system restore and report back in a few minutes.

 

[sudieken]

System restore finished. Nothing has changed but for some reason the icons appear normally for a split second when I refresh the desktop with F5.

 

[indianacarnie]

O.K. then ........ have you tried a sfc/scannow to check for and possibly repair any corrupted system files? Heres a link to a tutorial on how to do that if you haven't before : http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1538-sfc-scannow-command-system-file-checker.html